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The evolution of Half-Life: Absolute Zero (namely the first map in the mod.) These images are quite long, so you will need to click onto them to see the full thing. Advised to open them into a new tab to see them at their original resolution. 2014 - Development starts picking up steam again, level design being headed by GaussGunner and myself. ZedMarine would be slowly be making a return during this era. 2015 - Zed would become level design lead again, GaussGunner would start taking a back seat and would eventually leave to pursue new artistic endeavors. We would finally drop the name "Half-Life E3 1998" later in August and become "Half-Life: Absolute Zero." Demo was planned to be released early 2016 and a full release to follow only a few months afterwards. Blue24 would join the team early that year, marking the retirement of the 2010-2012 code. 2016 - Reality sinks in, we knew Half-Life: Absolute Zero was not in the state to ship early that year as a demo. Various maps that were functioning months prior were no longer playable and discussion on whatever or not development should be restarted again began. We would be able to salvage the maps, but disaster struct once more. The April build that sparked the discussion of rebooting development ended up leaking to the public and everyone could see the state of HLAZ as of April of 2016. 2017 - Things start to start looking up for the mod! Pre-demo testing went good and it was being well received among play testers. A few odd decisions would take place in the month prior to the demo shipping, but overall the Demo was overall well received. 2018 - Things were looking up for the project, everything seemed to be going as planned... Until, well, you know the rest of the story.